When I was a kid there was a thing called the Corporate Ladder. You started with a company as a young person and if you were lucky, you got to “grow with the company.” My dad worked for the same company for 35 years, and my friends’ dads did the same thing. More of my friends’ dads than moms went to work back then. Now the corporate ladder is gone. Termites got into it and now it is sawdust at our feet.

Internships continue to be one of the best ways for college students to prepare for the job market and secure full-time employment upon graduation. Beyond the basic professional skills you gain, completing an internship shows you’re ambitious and passionate about a given industry and lets you demonstrate your abilities and make them known.   And lately more interns are receiving job offers at the end of their programs.

Facebook doesn’t only want to be a network for friends. On Monday, the company widely launched a new enterprise version of Facebook called “Workplace“ to support chat and collaboration within businesses. More than 1,000 organizations currently use the tool, previously known as ”Facebook at Work.

Alli Webb, founder of Drybar (Photo: Jamie Ching, c/o Drybar) As recently as seven years ago, longtime hairdresser Alli Webb was driving around Los Angeles in her 2001 Nissan Xterra, braving traffic to visit clients of her mobile blow dry service Straight at Home. Her trajectory since then has been staggering by any measure. Webb opened the first Drybar salon in Brentwood, Calif. in early 2010 with the help of a $250,000 investment from her brother.

Shutterstock Businesses today are under enormous pressure to get new (read better) products to market faster than ever before. When you pit this demand against the borderless manner in which companies must span timezones there’s only one way work can get accomplished effectively and efficiently, and that’s through small teams.

The often romanticized vision of entrepreneurship shows a quick path to success and total devotion to your new business from day one. Reality, on the other hand, presents a startling contrast. Although often seen as a career path for individuals who embrace risk openly, the entrepreneurs who start their companies while they’re still employed are actually significantly reducing their level of risk.

Credit: Shutterstock Do you ever feel left out of decisions at work? At the departmental meeting, for example, maybe your team unveiled a new direction for a project, and everyone was excited—except for you. Why not you? Because, for some reason, you’re the only person who didn’t know about this new, and exciting, direction.

Shutterstock Bell Labs is historically one of the most productive R&D labs in history. A large number of the technologies we use today were invented there. Bell Labs scientists invented the facsimile machine, the first long-distance television transmission, the first binary digital computer, the transistor, the laser, cellular technology, the UNIX operating system and the first fiber-optic technologies.

Shutterstock Too often I encounter leaders and employees struggling to make decisions. This is especially common with group decisions. Typically, the group is considering two or three alternatives with lists of pros and cons for each. They go around and around and just can’t seem to reach a conclusion. So here is my advice. 1. SOAR through Decisions with a disciplined process. Follow the SOAR through decisions process.

Julien Codorniou, Director of Facebook at Work, launches ‘Workplace’ on October 10, 2016. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) For years, Facebook has been synonymous with after-work banter, funny cat videos, and pictures of baby antics. That is about to change. On Monday, the company launched Workplace, which offers the same look, feel, and features as the popular platform but aims to expand its services to the office. The idea is straightforward.